Alejandro Brugués and Nacho Vigalondo (l. to r.) are writer/directors from Cuba and Spain, respectively, but they consider Austin their birthplace as filmmakers. In a format-defying episode, we travel through time to tell their stories as artists who love making their movies as much as they do celebrating the work of others.
WARNING: Very explicit language and imagery throughout.
Enjoy.
Guests
Nacho Vigalondo is on Twitter, was nominated for an Oscar, and someone made nightmare-inducing masks of his face this year, as depicted below. His movie Open Windows, starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, is out now.
Alejandro Brugués is on Twitter, and studied under Gabriel García Márquez while at film school (100% true). His next project is The Wrong Place.
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Nacho and Alejandro's Movies Discussed in This Episode
7:35 in the Morning without subtitles
7:35 in the Morning with subtitles? All dogshit quality on YouTube. It is, however, available in...
Confetti of the Mind: The Short Films of Nacho Vigalondo (Vimeo) which is $3 to rent and $5 to buy.
Timecrimes (teaser trailer/DVD/Amazon Prime Instant Video)
Juan of the Dead (teaser trailer/DVD/Blu-ray/iTunes)
Extraterrestrial (teaser trailer/DVD/iTunes)
Open Windows is coming to cinemas soon in various countries and is already on VOD services like iTunes and Amazon. Support it.
Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial have no U.S. Blu-ray. Ugh.
Related Episodes
Screen Time 27: Cuban Ninja Stars is an interview with Alejandro from February 2013, just after he won the Goya for Juan de los Muertos/Juan of the Dead.
Screen Time 58: Batteries Charged is the isolated interview edited down slightly from Closing Night of Fantastic Fest 2014 that opens and closes this episode.
Both episodes may not appear immediately in the feed. It's been a long week.
Show Notes and Links
Above: Police "crowd-controlling" over 15,000 Cubans in Havana trying to get into the Cuban premiere of Juan of the Dead.
Not-as-above: "Juan meets Shaun"
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